May also be attributed to something else, or I'm getting old, but it seems to have been a fortunate outcome.
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It was on google somewhere. It was like I wanted to dislike a particular author or that particular programming language they were talking about, but took it as me not wanting to hear about anything technological ever again. It was frustrating as heck.
This is the part I don't understand, how is Google doing so bad at this. You get slightly better experience if you use Chrome. It (on purposely?) keeps asking you to click 3 buttons to play a video Edge, and won't even show comments.
If you wanna see a great video on some obscure implementation detail of some electronics gear from the soviet era it doesn't really matter if it was uploaded a year ago or 8 years ago.
The worst part is when it gets stuck on particular video/topic and just keeps recommending the same thing for months.
If someone posts on a crafting forum, complains about youtube being broken is the conclusion that they are not the customer that most companies are targeting?
or any number of other fora, I doubt the predictor of a single interest is enough to differentiate the person so significantly.
Look at how many youtube videos dominate search results with hundreds of thousands of views for “how to” X when X is trivially described in a few lines of text.
My stepfather was an idiot, a drunkard, a gambling addict, a drug addict, easily conned by direct marketing and ponzi schemes, with not a large number of friends, and poorly educated.
He read, as far as I have been able to figure out, 1 book in his life and he read that book 75% of the way finished (It was some sort of crime book - pretty thick though so about the 600-800 pages length)
But when the internet came around he got himself an online identity and was out on forums of people who shared his interests all the time posting his views on things.
There are really not very many people out there less capable than my stepfather, percentage wise. I do not believe there are huge swathes of people that he beat.
>Look at how many youtube videos dominate search results with hundreds of thousands of views for “how to” X when X is trivially described in a few lines of text.
given that youtube is owned by the Google, not sure what to take from that other than they put results from one of their properties at the top for purposes of their own.
although I often take a how to X video over text because even though the X is trivially described there are a lot of extra things you can find out from the video really quick - for example if you search for how to do X in Y
and you read a tutorial, it can be that the tutorial is slightly off from your version of Y, and you spend time trying to figure out if it is the tutorial that is wrong, if you have misunderstood their trivial few lines of text because the text might not be clearly written and so on and so forth, but when you look at the video if it shows a menu entry being clicked on that just does not exist then you know they have something different than you do and if you can't immediately figure out what your system change has been try to go find some other solution.
It is the extra information that a video gives that can make the video useful. As to which to choose is dependent on a lot of things.
The ML PhDs could be working just fine. You won’t know.
My biggest gripe with YouTube recommendations, or any service of that kind (Spotify, Amazon, etc.), is that they don't understand what aspects of the content I value. So it is a huge hit and miss. Sometimes it works, because I guess I just happen to value the same things that the majority of people do, other times, I might watch an hour long very in-depth video about a topic, then YouTube for a week or so tries to get me to watch 5 minute, rather shallow introduction videos that are way more popular. There is nothing wrong with those videos per se, they are often really well made, but it is not what I'm looking for.
Other times it picks stuff up from the long tail that seemingly gets into a feedback loop, suddenly reaching millions of view, with practically zero relevance to me.
Then there are some personal tastes of mine, e.g. that I can't stand the, I guess I'd call it the "Youtube Voice" where creators go completely over the top instead of talking like a normal person.
I wonder what metric could be used as a proxy to get better recommendations? Or if a better approach would be, to just build a better custom search so I can tweak it to what I'm looking for at this moment in time.